Recent News

East Central University faculty and Ada area favorites will take the Dorothy Summers Theatre Stage for an Evening of Jazz and Pop Standards Concert at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 6.

The event, free and open to the public, will feature standards from jazz and popular repertoire, including music of legendary artists such as Janis Joplin, Elton John, Barbra Streisand and many others.

Kellogg & Sovereign® Consulting, LLC, a professional consulting firm located in Ada, was recently recognized by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education for its valued business partnership with East Central University.

Co-owned by Jane Kellogg and Debi Sovereign, Kellogg & Sovereign provides consulting services for schools, libraries and healthcare providers in order to receive funding from the FCC’s Universal Service programs.

After a several-week delay, East Central University’s First Foreign Film Festival will wrap Wednesday, March 25, with the screening of “Three Idiots” at 4 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center in the Bill S. Cole University Center.

“Three Idiots” is a wildly popular musical comedy, focusing on miserable engineering students and best friends Rancho, Farhan and Raju. While attending one of India’s premier colleges, the three “idiots” struggle to beat their school’s draconian system, which, in their eyes, unfairly values grades over creativity.

The 10th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, featuring Darrell Bourque, Heid E. Erdrich, Steven Schroeder and Mary Kay Zuravleff, in addition to more than 50 author presentations from Oklahoma and beyond, is April 2-4, 2015, on the campus of East Central University in Ada, Okla.

Fans of Harry Potter can enjoy a musical parody of the series in a student-led stage production of “A Scary Potter Musical” set for March 26 and March 28 at the Dorothy Summers Theatre on the campus of East Central University.

There is one performance at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, and two performances on Saturday, March 28, at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. All performances are free and open to the public.

The director is ECU student Zach Garcia, who is putting on the production as credit toward his honor’s thesis. He wrote the entire script and music for the production.

The EqualiCon2k15 College Summit, designed to build political capacity, learn about GLBTQIA issues and have fun, will be hosted by East Central University’ Gay-Straight Alliance from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 28, at the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

Come catch a glimpse of American history with World War II Marine Veteran and 92-year-old R.V. Burgin at the Seventh Annual Louise Young Diversity Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the Ataloa Theatre in East Central University’s Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. Burgin’s lecture is free and open to the public. Burgin’s wartime images are captured in two pieces of art by Matt Hall entitled “Peleliu Marine Cpl. R.V.

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